NBC Exclusive: Ann Curry Speaks with Turkish PM Recep Tayyip
by Caryn Robbins - May 09, 2013 In an exclusive interview that took place this afternoon in Istanbul, Ann Curry, NBC News' National and International Correspondent and Anchor at Large, sat down with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who asserts that Syria's President Bashar Hafez al-Assad has used chemical weapons and th...
Bard SummerScape 2013 Presents THE MASTER AND MARGARITA Stage Premiere, Now thru 7/21
by BWW News Desk - July 11, 2013 The Bard SummerScape festival in New York's Annandale-on-Hudson presents the world premiere of an original stage adaptation of The Master and Margarita (1937) by Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita is widely recognized as one of the greatest and most beloved Russian novels of the 20th century...
Marin Alsop Leads BSO in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony Tonight
by BWW News Desk - November 13, 2014 Music Director Marin Alsop will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 tonight, November 13 at 8 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Sunday, November 16 at 3 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore. Also on the program are Tchaikovsky's tone poem March...
Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum Presents KORNGOLD, THE LOST COMPOSER? Panel Today
by BWW News Desk - February 25, 2014 The Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum are the proud partners of what promises to be an extraordinary panel discussion on the life, the work and the legacy of exiled twentieth-century composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who went from Viennese 'wunderkind' to one of the founding fathers of the 'G...
Marin Alsop to Lead BSO in Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, 11/13 & 11/16
by Tyler Peterson - October 31, 2014 Music Director Marin Alsop will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 on Thursday, November 13 at 8 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Sunday, November 16 at 3 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore. Also on the program are Tchaikovsky's tone poem M...
Free Reading of SHOSTAKOVICH Set for ACT, 5/12-13
by Tyler Peterson - April 11, 2014 A Contemporary Theatre's New Play Award recipient: Shostakovich by Jason Grote. Best known for his play 1001 (a deconstruction of Arabian Nights) and Maria/Stuart, Jason Grote's newest work focuses on the life and work of celebrated Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. Commissioned through the New...
Highlights from SNL's 'Weekend Update' with Seth Meyers and Cecily Strong
by Caryn Robbins - December 23, 2013 Below, check out highlights from SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 'Weekend Update' with Seth Meyers and Cecily Strong'. The show aired Saturday, December 21, 2013....
Film Society of Lincoln Center Announces Cartoonists, Foot Soldiers of Democracy Special Screening
by Caryn Robbins - January 16, 2015 The Film Society of Lincoln Center, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy NY, Unifrance Films, Distrib Films, and Kinology, will host a special screening and the North American premiere of Stephanie Valloatto's Cartoonists, Foot Soldiers of Democracy...
Marc Geller Cast as 'Madame Irma' in Horizon Theatre Rep's THE BALCONY, Beg. 10/11
by BWW News Desk - September 20, 2012 Marc Geller has been cast as Madame Irma in Horizon Theatre Rep's production of Jean Genet's "The Balcony" at the ArcLight Theatre....
2012 TONY AWARDS Among Writers Guild of America Nominations
by Caryn Robbins - December 06, 2012 The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in television, news, radio, promotional writing, and graphic animation during the 2012 season. The winners will be honored at the 2013 Writers Guild Awards o...
Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum to Present KORNGOLD, THE LOST COMPOSER? Panel, 2/25
by BWW News Desk - February 20, 2014 The Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum are the proud partners of what promises to be an extraordinary panel discussion on the life, the work and the legacy of exiled twentieth-century composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who went from Viennese 'wunderkind' to one of the founding fathers of the 'G...
Chicago Opera Theater Presents MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES, Now thru 4/28
by BWW News Desk - April 20, 2013 Chicago Opera Theater's Chicago Stage Premiere production of Astor Piazzolla's MARÍA DE BUENOS AIRES evokes Argentina's 'Dirty War', the period between 1976 and 1983 when the country was governed by military juntas which controlled the populace through state-sponsored terrorism. This 'tango operita'...
Debra Lynn Fine, Jordan Bennett and More Set for Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts' High Holy Day Services Today
by BWW News Desk - September 13, 2013 GAL LUSKY, CEO and Founder of Israeli Flying Aid (IFA), a non-profit volunteer group providing humanitarian life-saving aid and relief to communities in areas stricken by natural disaster or territorial conflicts, will travel from the war-town Syrian and Jordanian border where one million refugee ch...
New Documentary FROM RUSSIA WITH MATH Selected for Winter Fest Film Festival
by Caryn Robbins - January 06, 2014 'From Russia with Math', a new documentary about the Russian School of Mathematics (RSM), has been selected to be part of NewFilmmakers 2014 WINTER FEST film festival....
OLD GHOSTS, NEW DREAMS Cambodia Program Set for Film Society of Lincoln Center, Now thru 4/25
by Movies News Desk - April 19, 2013 The Film Society of Lincoln Center previously announced Old Ghosts, New Dreams: The Emerging Cambodian Cinema (today, April 19-25). To be presented in conjunction with the citywide Season of Cambodia arts festival, FSLC will team with the great documentarian Rithy Panh to screen a fascinating survey...
The Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum Present KORNGOLD, THE LOST COMPOSER?, 2/25
by BWW News Desk - February 20, 2014 The Dallas Opera and Dallas Holocaust Museum are the proud partners of what promises to be an extraordinary panel discussion on the life, the work and the legacy of exiled twentieth-century composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who went from Viennese "wunderkind" to one of the founding fathers of the "G...
2013 TONYS, ZERO DARK THIRTY Among Winners of WGA Awards
by Caryn Robbins - February 18, 2013 The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) last night announced the winners of the 2013 Writers Guild Awards....
Terrorism Expert Brian Michael Jenkins Announces the Release of WHEN ARMIES DIVIDE
by BWW News Desk - April 08, 2013 Syria's escalating civil war has raised concerns about the security of the country's arsenal of chemical weapons. The Pentagon reportedly has secret plans to secure Pakistan's nuclear weapons against terrorists, a jihadist coup, or civil war. It also has conducted war games to explore how it might t...
BWW Reviews: Missed Opportunities Abound in SEMELE from Canadian Opera at BAM
by Richard Sasanow - March 20, 2015 The Canadian Opera Company's production of Handel's SEMELE came to BAM's Howard Gilman Opera House complete with a marvelous 17-ton Ming Dynasty temple, transported from the town of Quhou, China. It was central to the production concept by Zhang Huan, a visual and performance artist who admits to ig...
Smithsonian Channel Premieres THE LOCKERBIE BOMBING Tonight
by TV News Desk - December 21, 2013 On December 21st 1988, Pan American World Airways Flight 103 exploded in the skies above Lockerbie, a small town in Scotland. All 259 people on board the Boeing 747 were killed, as were 11 people on the ground....
BWW Reviews: Woolly Turns Reality on Its Head with Metaphorical YOU FOR ME FOR YOU
by Jennifer Perry - November 12, 2012 'You for Me for You' is certainly unlike any other play I've witnessed that deals with important social-cultural ideas that impact our current reality....
Photo Flash: First Look at Burning Coal Theatre's GOOD
by BWW News Desk - January 30, 2013 Burning Coal Theatre Company's 2012/2013 season continues with C.P. Taylor's drama Good, directed by Ian Finley, January 31 through February 17, 2013 at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below!...
Spanish Repertory to Present BARCELO ON ICE Reading, 11/19
by Kelsey Denette - October 10, 2012 Winner of the HOLA award for outstanding new play and the ACE award for best director/drama, both for La Luz De Un Cigarrillo (The Light Of A Cigarette), Marco Antonio Rodriguez's new play, Barcelo On Ice, is a finalist in Spanish Repertory's Nuestras Voices playwriting competition and will receive ...
Elizabeth Kiem Releases Debut Book, 'Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy'
by Christina Mancuso - August 26, 2013 Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy puts a modern twist on classic spy fiction, highlighting the culture shock between the USSR and the U.S. that would come to define a war 'so cold it exists mostly in space or the hockey arena'—from a debut author who lived it herself.... |